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New images from the FBI could help detectives track down the identity of remains that were found more than 25 years ago.

“She’s the only unidentified human remains that we have,” said Detective Sean Tice with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

On April 11, 1985, people discovered the remains — possibly a woman — nearly a mile north of the Crescent Beach ramp, about 10 feet from high tide and 2 1/2 feet below the dunes, according to a Sheriff’s Office release.

The FBI recently reconstructed the woman’s facial features based on her remains.

The images show what the woman may have looked like around the time of her death.

After her bones were found, University of Florida officials examined the remains and came up with a brief set of possible descriptions for the woman: She was white, around 5 feet 7 inches tall, and had light brown to blond hair. She was between 20 and 40 years old when she died, and she died between one to five years before her remains were found.

A DNA profile, dental report and other examinations have taken place since then.

Fractures in her bones and “three distinctive surgical burr holes” in her skull led detectives to believe that she might have been in a car crash before she died, according to earlier reports.

Her death was ruled a homicide.

Detectives are looking to the public to help identify the woman.

“We really need to identify her,” Tice said. “That’s the key.”

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Anyone who has information about the woman’s identity can call Detective Sean Tice at 209-2192. To remain anonymous and possibly be eligible for a cash reward, anyone with information about the case can call Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at 1-(888) 277-TIPS (8477).

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I read something in the Daytona paper about a cold case down New Smyrna way about a woman who got into a pickup truck and was never seen again. I'm sure the LEO's would have already tried to match her up with missing persons cases.